North Korea Launches at Least Three Missiles
BBSNews 2006-07-04 -- According to NHK news Japan: "Japanese government officials say they have received information that North Korea launched a missile on Wednesday morning. Japanese Defense Agency officials have confirmed that a 2nd missile was launched. The officials say the 1st missile was fired at 03:32 Japan time on Wednesday and it landed in the Sea of Japan after about 6 minutes.
The Japanese government is trying to confirm what type of missiles were fired.
Japanese government officials in charge of crisis management are convening at the Prime Minister's Official Residence to gather information."
CNN is reporting on its Web site that the Taepodong-2 missile, the one that the Bush administration has been encouraging North Korea to not launch has indeed been launched after the launch of two smaller missiles:
"North Korea launched a long-range Taepodong-2 missile early Wednesday in an apparently unsuccessful test that failed in flight, a senior State Department official said.North Korea also tested at least two smaller missiles, U.S. sources told CNN.
Both missiles were launched from a site other than the one intelligence officials have watched for weeks ahead of the long-range missile test, a senior State Department official said."
CNN is reporting on their network that the long-range missile "failed at some point" and that there might have been a fourth missile.
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